Jaryd Krishnan

Software Engineer. Super nerd. Hobbyist beer brewer.

[Jaryd Krishnan @jarydkrish]

@NickHorob 42 is my guess (the meaning of life, the universe, and everything!)

That’s quite the bottle!

[Nick Horob @NickHorob]

Most farmers I know have a ton of paper documents.

Just a few examples: invoices, fertilizer records, crop plans, grain marketing contracts, etc.

Paperless NGX is an open-source document storage platform that converts all of your documents and their contents into a digital format (using OCR to read text and even handwriting).

But in my opinion, it's missing two things:

1. Semantic search that finds results based on meaning and topic, rather than exact keyword matches.

2. Connectivity with AI tools.

So we've built a free tool that we're giving away to the Fullstack Ag community, and we're calling it Paperless Ag. It combines semantic search with an MCP.

It's taking us a little longer than what I was hoping for, but we should have it launched to the community this week.

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Here's a fun Claude use case.

From a hand-drawn corn maze map to a Claude generated Shapefile to a clean @johndeere setup file and planted corn maze!

[Jaryd Krishnan @jarydkrish]

@NickHorob @JohnDeere Seriously, that’s wild!

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We'll be building this in the next cohort of https://t.co/BlmP59lb8d. Sign up for the waitlist at the website today to be notified when we open up sign-ups (it will happen this week).

[Jaryd Krishnan @jarydkrish]

@blonglet @NickHorob @JohnDeere Oh for sure! I'm sure there are better ways to do it in Operations Center - my use case is actually all in https://t.co/LxUO7IykkI (meant to be an easy deploy to bolt)

The idea behind it is just to do the analysis on the shapefile from the field operation

[Jaryd Krishnan @jarydkrish]

@blonglet @NickHorob @JohnDeere So @blonglet I'm actually encouraging people to do this in Operations Center. Add it as an "inactive" second boundary tagged as "irrigated", so we can just look at it at the same time! Here's a quick example with a whole section pivot that only intersects part of the field

[Jaryd Krishnan @jarydkrish]

@NickHorob Happens to the best of us! I did try an warn you 😅

[Jaryd Krishnan @jarydkrish]

@NickHorob It'll be some fun!

[Jaryd Krishnan @jarydkrish]

@NickHorob It was some fun!!

[Jaryd Krishnan @jarydkrish]

@NickHorob Lasers are fun!

[Jaryd Krishnan @jarydkrish]

@NickHorob @steeke7 It was a fun debugging session!

[Jaryd Krishnan @jarydkrish]

@NickHorob It was quite the evening!

[Nick Horob @NickHorob]

I recorded a podcast yesterday. I asked the host (a https://t.co/qUgtjbghIj user) what his favorite feature of the software is.

His reply: our customer support team.

I started doing all customer support but I do well under 1% of it now. So I can’t take much credit!

Good work @theWyguy95, @blonglet, @thechrissalazar, @jarydkrish, @remotejake, Claudine, Cody, and Jarrett!

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I came across this old https://t.co/s9CM4ZBKzd screenshot. We've come a long way!

[Jaryd Krishnan @jarydkrish]

@NickHorob @MYPrecisionAg Bahahahahah yes

[Jaryd Krishnan @jarydkrish]

@NickHorob It has been, and continues to be, an adventure!

[Nick Horob @NickHorob]

Today marks the three-year anniversary of https://t.co/qUgtjbghIj’s acquisition by John Deere.

A few thoughts.

First, I’m thankful for a lot of things, but I’m especially thankful that we have been able to maintain a lot of autonomy.

We continue to improve what features we currently have, build new features, and provide the best support that we can.

What we work on continues to be driven solely by our team and customers.

Secondly, I knew Deere had a lot of smart and motivated people. But the people have exceeded my expectations.

There are a ton of great people at the company who’ve helped us build better software for our customers. That will only accelerate.

Lastly, it’s been fun to see the progress on Operations Center.

I’m excited to continue to leverage the great work by the Operations Center teams and add a financial lens to the increasing amount of data being tracked on your farm.

I received a fair amount of critical feedback after the deal closed. And that’s understandable. But I’m confident that we’ve been able to build a better customer experience by our closer relationship with Deere’s people and tech.

I have a lot to be thankful for.

[Nick Horob @NickHorob]

One of the things that I’m proud of at Harvest Profit is that we haven’t had any employees quit since I started the business 7 years ago.

This will obviously change at some point as people seek new challenges. But I’m thankful to have kept our small team together.

I’m far from perfect as a manager but I think that there are a few factors at play here:

1) Working on impactful things for our customers

2) Deere has been great to us and has a ton of smart, motivated people

3) Everyone has a lot of autonomy

4) Flexible work hours and location

5) Problems happen and when they do, no one gets angry. We do our best to fix issues and improve.

And there’s likely some luck involved. I’ll take it though!